My email inbox has been hit a few times in the last month with queries which revolve around the same issue: the issue of police using section 136 Mental Health Act 1983 and then handing over the person detained to the NHS and leaving within the hour.  You may recall: phase four of “Right Care, […]

The Health Secretary took himself on the weekend politics programmes and decided to tell us “mental health is over-diagnosed” as the hints about this week’s cuts to benefits was trailed. It caused quite the kerfuffle – radio phone-ins, official responses from bodies like the Royal College of Psychiatrists as well as the predictable debates on […]

This post is not really about mental health, but mental capacity and more importantly still, the legal assessment of capacity to take decisions.  Like me, you may have followed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill which is now before the House of Commons and is separately passing through the Scottish Parliament.  I admit […]